books about: congressional     books:       Industrial innovation: Debate over government policy (CRS issue brief)7 reviews Wendy H Schacht Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1989 Double Buffs delight Loved it! Been looking for something like it ever since. I recommend it to my "reader" friends often. As a New York City history buff I found it to be readable and enlightening. And as a fire buff, since 9/11 I can't get enough of this stuff, I found it to be well-researched and thorough. I knew what I was getting into when I read the jacket. Golway's firefighting roots make him a fan of The ...             Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections2 reviews Barbara Palmer Routledge, 2008 A must read! This extraordinary book is the most important book on women and congressional elections ever published. No other scholars have taken such a detailed and longitudinal look at women's fortunes running for the U.S. Congress and have posed so many essential, timely and important questions all in one place. This book is extremely well written and will be of interest to practitioners and academics ...             Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints5 reviews Lee Epstein, Thomas G. Walker Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995 A great overview of the most important cases in Constitutional law I had a Constitutional Law class while an undergraduate which relied very heavily on this book, and I could not be more satisfied. While I was a chemistry major, I really enjoyed this book because it had the actual written opinions (or significant excerpts thereof) of the most important and precedent-making cases in a variety of topics of Constitutional Law. Having those opinions ready ...             Ordinary Heroes: A Tribute to Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients: Reflections of Freedom, Faith, Duty ...4 reviews Tom Casalini, Timothy Wallis Sweet Pea Press, 2001 Touching on a different level Mr. Casalini's book is incredible -- I found myself tearing up at some of the descriptions and pictures. These men are incredibly brave, but at the same time, none seemed to be anything but the guy next door. The wonderfulness of ordinary was truly captured and championed in this amazing book.             United States of America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients and Their Official Citations3 reviews R. J. Proft Highland House II, 2001 Excellent reference work that includes the latest recipients This volume is an excellent reference work that contains more than just the official citations of all Medal of Honor recipients, including those from the Somalia campaign. This work also contains a history of the Medal and how it evolved into is present incarnation, a listing of recipients by place of birth, and a listing of still living recipients. The citations themselves are divided by ...             Korea-U.S. relations: Issues for Congress (CRS issue brief)3 reviews Robert G Sutter Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1992 Wonderfully Captivating If you would like to experience a bit of Irish life or travel to IRELAND without stepping foot on a plane;Then THE DOMESTICS by:James Fennessy is the book for you.The author brillantly and eloquently describes life in IRELAND a half a centuary ago.The author captures the readers' attention immediately with wonderfully authentic portraits of interesting characters.Throughout the reading of this ...             Congressional Deskbook, 2000: The Practical Guide to Congress (Legislative Series Volume 1)2 reviews Michael L. Koempel, Judy Schneider The Capitol.Net, 2000 All aspects of the Congress are covered Congressional Deskbook 2000 is a comprehensive, single volume guide to the United States Congress and provides a complete, 620-page, almanac style contact resource for the inner-workings of the legislative branch of the federal government. All aspects of the Congress are covered including legislative processes, budgeting, special procedures and procedural strategies, political competition, ...             Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, Fifth Edition (Legislative Series)3 reviews Michael L. Koempel, Judy Schneider, ... TheCapitol.Net, Inc., 2007 Comprehensive resource for the study of Congress A bit of background. The authors began their careers as Congressional staffers and maintained contact with Members of Congress (MCs hereafter) and staff over time. Lessons learned from staff and MCs are the focus of this book and (page xxi) "continue to inform this book as Congress evolves. . . ." The mission of this book? To cover and explain how Congress works to the book's readers. The ...             Congressional Directory 2004: 108th Congress, 2nd Session (Legislative Series)2 reviews TheCapitol.Net The Capitol.Net, 2004 Very handy, sprial bound - Great for C-SPAN junkies! This Congressional Directory has black and white photos of Senators and Representatives, plus good biographical background info, names of the most important staffers in each office, maps of the congressional districts for all states, email addresses for staff, district/state office information, and much more. In the front of this wire spiral-bound directory are a very useful legislative process ...             The greening of eastern Europe: Devastated countries try to reverse Communism's environmental toll (CQ ...3 reviews Patrick G Marshall Congressional Quarterly, 1991 Sensational, Definitive and Entertaining! A Must Have! "Ford: The Men and the Machine" is the most definitive and complete book about the life and happenings of automotive's greatest man, Henry Ford. His accomplishments as cited cannot compare to any other single figure in automobile history (or even business itself). The book is nothing short of epic: over 800 pages and 36 chapters, plus appendices. It starts off with the author's assessment of ...             Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process2 reviews Walter J. Oleszek Cq Pr, 1989 An excellent insider's guide to understanding Congress I'm a chief of staff to a Member of the House of Representatives. I give a copy of this book to every new staffer who comes to work in our office, and tell them it's mandatory reading. Simply put: Mr. Oleszek's book is the single best reference out there for students and citizens wanting to learn about the ins and outs of how a bill becomes a law. What makes the book a must-read is not just ...             How to Find Health Information on the Internet2 reviews Bruce Maxwell Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998 En bonne sante L'auteur Bruce Maxwell est un internaute qui sait trouver des renseignements sur la sante, en ligne. Ainsi arrive-t-il a s'arranger d'un diagnostic inattendu et du traitement qu'il faut. Quant a lui il y a une soixantaine de bonnes sources, en ligne, qui vous donnent, facile et gratuitement, tout ce dont vous avez besoin de savoir de la sante. Par exemple, on se sert de l'index comprehensif ...             Cq's Politics in America 2000: The 106th Congress (Politics in America (Cloth), 2000)2 reviews Cq's Political Staff Congressional Quarterly Books, 1999 The greatest night I ever spent, and I'm not a virgin! For any political junkie, this is so full of obscure facts that it will keep you overinformed, which any politico knows is the only way to be.             Congressional Directory 2005: 109th Congress 1st Session (Legislative)2 reviews The Capitol.Net, 2005 Spiral bound with color photographs Directory of the members of the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, with color photos, and fold-out map of Capitol Hill. Wire spiral bound for easy use. - Color photographs - Terms of Congress - Legislative Documents Online - Legislative process flowchart from the Congressional Deskbook - List of frequently mispronounced names of Members of Congress - Current member ...             Congressional Odyssey2 reviews T.R. Reid W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 1980 from back cover Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid takes a candid look at Washington personalities and politics, revealing the motives and strategies, the cooperation and rivalry, the honesty and the deceit behind a seemingly minor piece of legislation. He traces the course of S.790-the Inland Waterways Bill-from its inception to its eventual passage, a process with as many twists and subplots as a novel, and ...             Economic damage caused by the sweetpotato whitefly: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of ...2 reviews United States For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992 Economic damage by sweetpotato whitefly Economic damage by whitefly and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) on tomato from Dominican Republic reach more than 90% in loss of yield for 1992 year. In Dominican Republic did import all material prime for factoring sauce durin 1992-94 years. But the implemetation of an Integrate Pest Management Program, began in 1993, was possible to control to Bemisia spp and the virus, decreasing the ...             Inscriptions of a Nation: Collected Quotations from Washington Monuments2 reviews Clint W. Ensign Congressional Quarterly Books, 1994 Essential to read before you see these memorials Fresh and original, "Inscriptions of a Nation" fills a hole in history and travel books. This slim volume contains the inscriptions on Washington, D.C.'s major monuments and memorials. The author, Clint Ensign, prefaces each featured memorial with a brief synopsis of the monument and why it or the person it commemorates is significant to our history. However, the book's main purpose is to ...             The Effects of Congressional Military Service on Department of Defense Appropriations2 reviews Storming Media, 2004 It's a Good One! This piece of work is well thought out and extremely well-researched. The author is very intelligent and put a lot of work into it. The amount of effort he put into insuring accuracy shines through on every page. Reading this thesis will tell you more about this subject than you probably ever thought you could know. You should read it!             The Decline of Representative Democracy: Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures2 reviews Alan Rosenthal Congressional Quarterly Books, 1997 A Warning This work is one that must be read by all people interested in the reasons behind why our governmental system is in shambles. I live in our nation's capital and I cannot understand how people can take for granted the wonders that the US has to offer. The freedoms that we currnetly enjoy are unparalelled to any other time in History. Despite this, people in our society spit on the bill of ...             How to Access the Federal Government on the Internet 1995: Washington Online (How to Access Federal ...2 reviews Bruce Maxwell Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995 Uncomfortably accurate This is perhaps the best book of it's genre on accessing the federal government. Far too many of these books focus on the "how" to access the federal government. This book focuses almost entirely on the "why". A majority of us do not realize the subtle reasons we all wish we could hack into the federal government, the needs to control the monetary flow of the richest nation in the world, a ...              search for books agriculture, appropriations, committee, comprehensive, congressional, constitutional, constraints, department, devastated, environmental, government, industrial, information, innovation, inscriptions, institutional, legislative, legislatures, participation, political, possibilities, procedures, quotations, recipients, reflections, representative, representatives, researcher, sweetpotato, washington books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Man-eaters of Kumaon, 1st American Edition 1946 we recommend Comprehensive resource for the study of Congress leave a comment home  impressum - about us